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Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe by John Buckley
RRP: £14.99£13.03Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and... -
US Half-Tracks: In World War II by David Doyle
RRP: £18.99£12.67Based on an adaptation of the White Scout Car, the US half-track vehicles of WWII combined the cross-country ability of a fully tracked vehicle with the road performance of a medium truck. A myriad of variations of these vehicles were produced,... -
Bomber Command: Churchill's Greatest Triumph by MacKenzie, Roddy 9781399017725
RRP: £25.00£17.62Roddy MacKenzie's father served in Bomber Command during the Second World War, but like so many brave veterans who had survived the war, he spoke little of his exploits. So, when Roddy started on his personal journey to discover something of what his... -
The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming's Red Indians by Craig Cabell
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Second World War spawned a plethora of crack special forces units (Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SBS, Phantom and Commandos) but 30 Assault Unit remains, even today, far more secretive and exclusive than the others. Formed by Ian Fleming, who was... -
Death of the Leaping Horseman: The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad by Jason D. Marks 9780811714044
£44.79The gripping book about a panzer division and its battles in the shattered streets of Stalingrad. In Death of the Leaping Horseman, the untold story of 24. Panzer-Division's savage fighting on Stalingrad's outskirts and in the devastated ruins of the... -
German Airlift During The Battle Of Crete by Allen C Morris Jr 9781530493272
RRP: £12.50£11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530493272Author Allen C Morris JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland 9780199578146 [USED COPY]
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Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland
RRP: £16.99£12.68At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher... -
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99£6.52'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of... -
Iron Coffins by Herbert A. Werner
RRP: £10.99£7.40A first hand account of the German U-boat battles of World War II, by one of the very few surviving commanders.This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill,... -
Heath Robinson's Home Front: How to Make Do and Mend in Style by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: £9.99£8.45How does one play bridge in a gas mask? Or enjoy motoring without consuming petrol? Or deal with a nationwide shortage of pea-sticks? For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with writer Cecil Hunt to show civilians 'how to make the best... -
The Mortal Sickness: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 2 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the second instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWhen a spinster of the parish is found bludgeoned to death... -
Siege of Malta 1940-42: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Rogers 9781784384593
RRP: £14.99£10.95For nearly two and a half years, from June 1940 until late 1942, Malta was subjected to one Axis air raid after another. The Mediterranean island was effectively beleaguered, reliant for defence on anti-aircraft guns and often-outnumbered fighter... -
Hitler: A Life in Pictures (Images of War Special) by Editors 9781783463220
RRP: £14.99£12.01This exceptional source is probably the best of the contemporary accounts of Hitler in power, albeit from a heavily pro-Nazi stance. The testimonies collected together were based on interviews conducted by Heinz A. Heinz in 1933 and 1934, shortly after... -
Royal Air Force: The Official Story by James Holland 9781787394230
RRP: £25.00£17.38Royal Air Force: The Official Story is the most up-to-date official history of the Royal Air Force - the oldest airforce in the world. From its genesis in the horrors of the First World War when pilots were open to the elements in craft made of little... -
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £18.99£13.61From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days and claimed the... -
British Web Equipment of the First and Second World Wars: Em32 by Martin J. Brayley
RRP: £10.95£8.96The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 found the British Army unready in many respects for a new age of warfare. However, the British led the world in the personal equipment worn by the infantryman thanks to an American officer named Anson Mills and the skills of... -
The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 by John Nichol 9780141003887 [USED COPY]
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The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
RRP: £10.99£7.77The legendary story of a resistance hero'Full of death and excitement' - Sunday Times'Unique' - TLSGeorge Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the... -
The Canal Line 1940: The Dunkirk Campaign by Jerry Murland 9781473852198
RRP: £14.99£10.95The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, B thune and La Bass e, follows the approximate boundary between Artois and Flanders and was, in 1940, the defensive line established on the western edge of the so-called... -
Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Prit Buttar
RRP: £25.00£16.43'Centuries Will Not Suffice' explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the... -
The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality by Richard Overy
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the award-winning author of The Dictators, Richard Overy's The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality is the best introduction available to a defining moment in British history. The extraordinary struggle between British and German air forces in 1940... -
No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson 9780306830181
RRP: £25.00£16.38No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys). But Penny Marshall's genre... -
Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb by Colin Brown 9781445682853
RRP: £9.99£6.64A professor of architecture at Cambridge University, Marcial Echenique, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. The mansion had an astonishing past... -
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Eti Elboim 9780008645960
RRP: £9.99£6.52'You are no longer a number' Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
Blitz City by David Young 9781838774349
RRP: £8.99£6.22The brand new 2022 historical crime thriller from the award-winning author of STASI CHILD.*** 'A tense, smartly plotted new police procedural' - DAILY MAIL ***1942. HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE - It is the most heavily bombed city outside of London, but for the... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
The Eighth Army in North Africa by Simon Forty 9781526723796
RRP: £14.99£10.95The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen... -
Spitfire, Mustang and the 'Meredith Effect': How a Soviet Spy Helped Change the Course of WWII by Peter Spring 9781526773500
RRP: £25.00£20.62By the mid-1930s the obstacles to high speed that aircraft designers faced included the question of cooling the engine. This was a big challenge that those working on the new fast aeroplanes entering service as the war clouds gathered over Europe had to... -
USMC M4A2 Sherman vs Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go: The Central Pacific 1943-44 by Romain Cansiere
RRP: £13.99£9.75The different national tank doctrines of the United States and Imperial Japan resulted in a terrible mismatch of the predominant tank types in the crucial Central Pacific campaign. A flawed Japanese doctrine emphasized light infantry support tanks, often... -
Why Britain is at War: With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts by Harold Nicolson 9780141048963 [USED COPY]
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Why Britain is at War: With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts by Harold Nicolson 9780141048963
RRP: £8.99£6.45"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with... -
USS Hornet (CV-8): From the Doolittle Raid and Midway to Santa Cruz by David Doyle 9780764358623
RRP: £18.99£12.67USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle's raiders in the first US strike on Japan in May 1942, was the third and last Yorktown-class aircraft carrier completed. Serving the US... -
The Desert War: Book 4 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £7.99£5.79Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why was North Africa such a key component in Britain's success over Mussolini and his Italian Army?How did they blunt Italy's actions?What challenges did they face?And what new technologies were... -
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £10.99£7.40The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to... -
Battle of the Odon by Georges Bernage 9781473857612
RRP: £25.00£19.22The Battle of the Odon evokes the clash between the British Army and the II SS-Panzer Korps, as they attacked across the Odon Valley during Operation "Epsom" in June 1944. Using contemporary photographs and documents, this book provides day-by-day... -
The PIAT: Britain's anti-tank weapon of World War II by Matthew Moss
RRP: £13.99£11.04Designed in 1942, Britain's innovative Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT) provided British and Commonwealth troops with a much-needed means of taking on Germany's formidable Panzers. Replacing the inadequate Boys anti-tank rifle, it was conceived in... -
Ravenous: A Jewish Scientist in Nazi Germany and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection by Sam Apple
RRP: £14.99£13.03The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century. A Jewish homosexual living openly with his partner, he was also among the most despised figures in the Third Reich. Yet top Nazi... -
Polish Armor of the Blitzkrieg by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: £12.99£11.01The Polish army during the Blitzkrieg conjures up tragic images of infantry and dashing, but ineffective and ultimately doomed cavalry charges. In actuality the Poles, in the midst of a large-scale re-armament programme, had up to 600 armoured vehicles...